The extraordinary life and times of the last of New York’s great Jewish gangsters is finally public, thanks to the Freedom of Information Law. The New York Daily news obtained once-confidential FBI documents detailing the connections between the Genovese crime family and Julius Bernstein, known in his heyday as Spike. Born in 1922, Bernstein lived long enough to see the rise and slow fall of New York’s five Mafia families. He shook down the Sbarro restaurant chain, controlled a bus driver’s …More